Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Chronicles of Narnia

   Summary:
Polly had a normal life until the day she met Digory, a boy who just moved into his aunt and insane uncle's  house, which was a couple of houses down from hers. His uncle lived with his aunt because his uncle needed "help" (He was often drunk) Polly and Digory quickly became friends and started to explore the only exciting thing in the whole neighborhood (or so they thought),  the tunnel that connected all of the houses from underground. They decided to enter a house through the tunnel. The house was never used, weeds grew abundant in the yard, and the windows were boarded up. All in all, the house had a creepy, haunted feeling to it. A perfect place to explore. Unluckily for them,  Polly and Digory misjudged where that creepy house's underground door was, and instead entered Digory's uncle's study, where Digory was forbidden to go into. He never knew why he wasn't allowed to go in, but he never wanted to anyway, his uncle was crazy. So when they foolishly opened the door and rushed inside, they experienced a great shock. Digory's uncle was standing there, and he quickly crossed the room and shut the door. The door could only be opened from the inside of the tunnel, so there was now way of reopening it. Trapped inside, Polly and Digory awaited their fate. " 'I am delighted to see you,' Uncle Andrew said. 'Two children are just what I wanted."

 Review:
   A lot of people think that the first book to the Chronicles of Narnia is "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," but they are mistaken. The first book is called "The Magician's Nephew." There are seven books and all and I couldn't stop reading them until the very end, the moment when you're happy that you know the ending and you're sad because the series is over. As I said in my Harry Potter review, the movies aren't as good as the books. You get more details and you also know how Narnia came to be. Sadly, the movie series starts with the third book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it doesn't show how Narnia was created.  Read this book (and hopefully the rest of the series), and you'll find out why there is talking animals, and how the White Witch took Narnia over.



Rating:
 I give this book 10/10 stars.

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